From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Population Map Who Is Financing the Caravan? Texans
Say Voting Machines Changed Straight Ticket Choices Fujimori's
Reimprisonment and Peru's Forgotten Forced Sterilization Program (Funded
by US Tax Dollars) Military work is a lightning rod in Silicon Valley,
but Microsoft will sell the Pentagon all the AI it needs Twitter
apologizes for failing to respond to a user who reported b
From Jenna Orkin Some Suspected Mail Bombs Not Capable of Exploding
Manhunt for sender of suspicious packages zeroes in on Florida mail
center Former Paul Ryan Challenger Arrested In Radioactive Murder Plot
Hundreds Of Caravan Migrants Accept Bus Rides Home Amid "Sickness, Fear
And Police Harassment" NBC Admits "Blue Wave Turning Purple" As
Republicans Outnumber Dems In Early Voting Ethiopia elec
From Jenna Orkin Oregon: Voters Registered Unless They Opt Out
Seedballs And if you think deforestation in Kenya's bad... Facebook Will
Ban Misinformation Around Voting During MidTerm Elections They Look
Like Cops But They're Not - And They're All Over Michigan A suspicious
package was sent to Robert de Niro's Manhattan restaurant Watch Live:
Mario Draghi Explains How EU Will Survive Without ECB
From Jenna Orkin Goat Pesticides Explosive devices sent in the mail to
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama CNN Broadcast Interrupted As NYC's Time
Warner Center Evacuated 'Pipe Bomb' Intercepted En Route To White House
NATO Sends 50,000 Troops To Largest Exercise Since Cold War Taiwan To
Hold Live-Fire Drill Near Spratly Islands In Preparation For Chinese
Invasion Why Jamal Khashoggi Was Killed Turk
From Jenna Orkin Who Is Behind Pueblo Sin Fronteras? Bombshell:
Khashoggi Remains Discovered In Garden Of Saudi Consul General's Home:
Sky News Intelligence Chief Who Oversaw Khashoggi Killing Was "The Saudi
Steve Bannon" Watch: Saudi Consulate Employees Burn Documents Day After
Khashoggi Killing New Cold War In Africa? Russia Bolstering Military
Advisers To Central African Republic Bayer Loses A
From Jenna Orkin Yemen on Brink of Worst Famine in 100 Years If War
Continues "Hyperalarming" "study Shows Massive Insect Loss "Why I'm
Investing 500 Million in Migrants" - George Soros 2016 CNN Releases
Photo Of Saudi "Double" Of Khashoggi, Turkey Finds Car Belonging To
Consulate Saudi agents reportedly stripped Khashoggi's body and walked
out of the consulate wearing his clothes after killing h
GlobaLove Think Tank
Government and Taxes
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last October 22, 2018 Two weeks
ago, I traveled from Manila to North Luzon by bus. Going up via NLEx,
SCTEx, Tarlac, Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, finally
to Gonzaga, Cagayan. I went there to visit a friend, also gave a talk on
TRAIN law and inflation at Cagayan State University (CSU) Gonzaga
campus. Going back I took the Cagayan Valley route
Last Wednesday October 24, I turned 5_ yo, getting closer to dual
citizenship [Filipino citizen, senior citizen :-)] few more years. I am
very thankful to friends who greeted me. Including pm and greetings
under others' greetings, I got around 700 cheerful notes. Thank you very
much friends. Please endure my often 'politically-incorrect' positions,
I just have to speak up my mind and data. Thank
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last October 18, 2018. The
government recently announced that it will suspend part 2 of the oil
excise tax hike this coming January 2019. So another increase of
P2/liter for both diesel and gasoline will be temporarily suspended but
the tax hikes in 2018 of P2.50/liter for diesel and P2.65/liter for
gasoline (from P4.35 to P7.00/liter) will remain. The reason
One reader of my BWorld article on MMDA towing last December 2017,
Lextanne Pantoja Tan, sent me a fb pm but since we are not friends, his
pm went to the 'message request' folder, which I hardly open, usually
after many months. Below is his pm, blogging this with his permission.
The photo here I got from the web, not from him or from my camera.
-------------- JUN 20TH, 2018 Hi sir Nonoy, Good eve
I took these photos today of my treehouse in the farm in Bugallon,
Pangasinan. It's now 14 years old. And view from the 2nd floor of my
treehouse overlooking a field of gold, mature rice ready to be
harvested. The farm caretaker Nong Endring and his partner-farmer
planted the rice. Closer view of the treehouse. It is perched on a big,
live mahogany tree. The trees around it except the front view
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last October 15, 2018. The Duterte
economic team aka “Dutertenomists” composed of the DBCC, the
Secretaries of DoF, DBM and NEDA and Governor of BSP have been peddling
the “6.7% inflation rate will be the peak” statement after the September
inflation was announced. They are daydreaming, of course. Not included
in their calculations and projections is the grant
henrymakow.com
Brother Nathaniel is a Jew who converted to the Russian Orthodox
Christian Church. In a short note on his website, he writes that while
political violence cannot be condoned, Jewish support for subversive or
satanic causes is bound to create antisemitism. Jews can put their heads
in the sand, but should not expect their target to do the same. Jews
must face the fact they have been sold a bill of
Famine, starvation, 100,000 dead in Saudi war on Yemen , school bus is
strafed, women are stoned for adultery, none of this registered until a
journalist is murdered. Why? Khashoggi was an important member of the
Muslim Brotherhood, which is Freemasonry of the Communist (Soros)
stripe. Under the guise of "Islamism," they advance globalism by
supplanting nation states like Syria, Saudi Arabia, and
Just as our bodies need food, our souls also have needs, for meaning
and inspiring models of truth, courage, goodness, beauty, and love. The
satanic cult (Cabalism) that controls modern culture defines humanity as
soulless animals, better to exploit and cull us. The film "Why Beauty
Matters" (left) shows that we are being starved spiritually. Our souls
are fed a diet of dysfunction, ugliness, vio
Hitler was elected to make Germany great again. The bankers had
something else in mind. Total destruction and devastation. Donald Trump
betrayed his election promise to defuse tensions with Russia by
gratuitously restarting a cold war. In this article written before the
election, I compared him to Hitler who also was false opposition ,
tasked by the Illuminati to lead Germany to annihilation. A s
In this 9-min video, a young Ukrainian woman outlines why she thinks
that MGTOWs (men who go their own way) are justified. She outlines many
reasons why young women have become toxic and marriage is a trap. The
comments below suggest that a growing number of men have rejected the
company of women altogether. i.e. " After a man marries a woman she
quickly loses that 'new car smell', but the car pa
Ron Unz, 57, is a Jewish American software entrepreneur, author and
publisher who is beginning to question the whole Jewish narrative.
"Essentially almost everything I had known-- or thought I had
known--about the religion of Judaism, at least in its zealously Orthodox
traditional form, was utterly wrong." The Oddities of the Jewish
Religion By Ron Unz (excerpt by henrymakow.com) Throughout my en
In These Times
If you want proof that the growing popularity of socialism poses a real
threat to the Trump administration—and to the dominance of market
fundamentalism over the U.S. economy—just look at a panicky report
released Tuesday by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).
Titled “ The Opportunity Costs of Socialism ,” the 72-page document is a
capitalist retort to rising calls for redistribut
This month, In These Times magazine became a campaign issue in the 2018
midterms when Republican Rep. Scott Tipton of Colorado’s 3rd District
accused Democratic challenger Diane Mitsch Bush of having “helped fund a
leading socialist magazine” by subscribing to ITT . In an attack ad
released October 17, Tipton first invoked the Democratic Socialists of
America—an organization with no apparent conn
Abigail Echo-Hawk came across an unpublished study in 2016, shortly
after becoming director of the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI). It
showed that, of American Indian and Alaska Native women living in
Seattle surveyed in 2010, 94 percent reported they had been raped or
coerced into sex. More than half were without permanent housing at the
time. Some within UIHI were concerned about how the p
When Christopher Columbus landed on Turtle Island, which we now call
North America, he brought with him a goal of making profit—of taking
from the land and people to create commerce. Today, approximately 526
years later, that same pillaging continues to drive our planet further
into the climate crisis and lead us into ecological collapse. Instead of
honoring the violent colonization Columbus repr
There is no doubt this moment calls for a powerful mobilization against
the Trump administration and the ruling-class, white-supremacist
interests it represents. But establishment Democrats' strategy of
hitching their “resistance” campaign to Russiagate is misguided and
dangerous. By demanding Trump prove he’s tough on Russia, the same
Democrats who warn that Trump is dangerous and unhinged are a
Cook County Jail, one of the largest in the country, confirmed to In
These Times that it has placed all of its divisions on lockdown in
response to the verdict in the trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van
Dyke. On Friday afternoon, Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree
murder for killing black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. During lockdowns,
people are largely confined to their cells and d
Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
Source: PLANETA UFO and El Litoral www.ellitoral.com.ar Date:
10.23.2018 An Article by Francisco Villagrán Argentina: An Incredible
UFO Case in Mburucuyá During the 1980s and 1990s, residents of the
interior of our province were witnesses to a number of cases of varying
importance, classified according to renown world-class researchers as
close encounters. The first classification, which still en
Source: PLANETA UFO and La Semana
https://www.semana.com/vida-moderna/articulo/ovnis-vistos-en-chile-por-aviones-6-aviones-comerciales/586464
Date: 10.11.2018 Chile: UFO Sighting Reported Simultaneously by Six
Airliners Six airliners in flight reported three objects whose movement
suggests the possibility of their being unidentified flying objects. The
mysterious event took place last May, but it
Source: DIARIO EL POPULAR (Argentina) Date: 30 September 2018
Argentina: Olavarria - A Key Location in the UFO Phenomenon The 12th
Federal Meeting of ICOU (United Field Researchers - Investigadores de
Campo Unidos) was organized by the Olavarria UFO Investigation center
and held at the Science Museum. The event was a tribute to Dante Rivera,
one of the pioneers in the phenomenon's research. A mee
Source: Fundación Argentina de OvnilogÃa Date: 10.03.2018 Argentina:
Luminous Probe over Brandsden (Buenos Aires Province) Luis Burgos
writes: "Our colleague Maxi Almada had a remarkable experience last
night with a luminous probe as he left his country home in Brandsden
(Buenos Aires Province at 21:20 hours. This is his story: "Good evening,
friends. I am uploading a draft report of the situatio
Source: Fundación Argentina de OvnilogÃa Date: 10.09.2018 Argentina: A
Phantom UFO? Luis Burgos writes: "An interesting photograph taken at
random on Sunday, October 7, at the Gualeguay River (Entre Rios) by
Laura Marcocich of the Villaguay Kayak Club. It is not included in the
2018 wave by virtue of being an artifact not visually detected. It even
bears a certain similarity with the object photo
Source: Fundacion Argentina de OvnilogÃa Date: 10.04.2018 Argentina:
Anomalous Object over Buenos Aires Luis Burgos shares with us a sequence
of photographs taken by a Buenos Aires police officer on October 3,
2018. He has summarized the information provided by the law enforcement
officer thus: "Today, Wednesday, October 3, 2018, I was on duty on Calle
152 northeast and the corner of 15 and 16 in
Jacques Ellul’s now-classic (1965) Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s
Attitudes articulated the characteristics of propaganda, detailing how
propaganda must cultivate each individual in their individuality in
order to produce changes in crowd activity. The capacity to cultivate
each individual in their individuality in order to control the crowd has
never been greater. Facebook allowed informatio
I've been regularly checking TEPCO's cams trained on Fukushima Daiichi -
now seven years out. After seven years of watching, I have a good sense
of what is "ordinary" and what looks strange. Today the plant looks
extra steamy. It has been months since the "steaminess" factor was so
dramatically evident. There was a magnitude 5.7 earthquake not too far
from the plant yesterday: The cams suggest th
I was reading Henry Giroux's latest essay: "Neoliberalism in the Age of
Pedagogical Terrorism" Counterpunch
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/22/neoliberalism-in-the-age-of-pedagogical-fascism/
where he describes the challenge of launching an informed energized
vision of the world for which we want to struggle, as he explains in the
excerpt below: .... the lack of mass resistance to oppression
AP (2018, October 17). Cause unknown: Mysterious paralyzing illness
found among kids in 22 U.S. states
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/17/world/science-health-world/cause-unknown-mysterious-paralyzing-illness-found-among-kids-22-u-s-states/#.W8dER3tKj3g
NEW YORK – U.S. health officials on Tuesday reported a jump in cases of
a rare paralyzing illness in children, and said it seems to be
Sakai Muto, former VP of Tokyo Electric Power, who is being tried for
negligence, testified October 16 that he had not been informed of the
chance of a tsunami impacting the Daiichi facility and therefore did not
authorize countermeasures: Mikiharu Sugiura and Chikako Kawahara (2018,
October 16). Ex-TEPCO exec denies being told of need for tsunami steps
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN http://www.asahi.com/ajw/
According to Reuters, global finance has just discovered that Saudi
Arabia has an ethics problem. Apparently the war in Yemen doesn't count:
Robert Cox (2018, October 14). Breakingviews - Cox: Global finance has a
Saudi Arabia problem. Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-politics-breakingviews/breakingviews-cox-global-finance-has-a-saudi-arabia-problem-idUSKCN1MO0TJ
The top American
News From Atlantis.
by Hexane I think it puts the final nail in the coffin. I have this one
about Artur Nebe. Jewish nose and very jewish face indeed. Clearly a
jew. Nebe was at the head of the Criminal Police Department (for the
entire Reich) between 1936 and 1944. On the English Wikipedia, it is
said that " In 1941, just prior to Operation Barbarossa, Heinrich
Himmler selected Nebe to command Einsatzgruppe B behin
by
Hexane Let's talk about operation Barbarossa. So we have already those
incoherences : 7) "The Jew Hitler (against the advice of all his
generals) single-handedly saves Moscow by ordering army group "Center"
to stop its advance on Moscow". 8) "The Jew Hitler tells the Soviets an
attack will occur at Kursk. The Jew Hitler delays the attack for more
than four months, until the Soviets have built d
by
Hexane [ How can Japan be controlled by Jews? Jews can't play Asians,
somebody (a member of this forum) told me that Mao was a (half-)Jew.
It's possible that there are Japanese Masons, but the Japanese were
always aggressive in wars, they were even brutal to each other (civil
wars between several Japanese kingdoms). While Japan attacked China and
other countries, Soviet Union wasn't touched. Du
by
Hexane About Operation Barbarossa, we can make these first
observations. Of course, Hitler had to make it quick. Otherwise,
logically, England would have been destroyed. If not, it would have been
very strange. And he had to make USSR retreat a lot and in a short
time, in order to be able to collect many jews. And, of course, there
are many discrepancies about the strategic an tactic choices of
by
Hexane SerbdomFighter wrote: Back to the topic about USSR: I´m sure you
heard that there are theories that Stalin wanted to invade Germany and
that was the reason to invade Soviet Union. I have two facts that
disproves that. 1. Stalin killed ten of thousands of his best officers
and generals between 1936 and 1940, including his best Soviet Marshall
Mikhail Tukhachevsky who had the title "red Na
by
Hexane Usually, when you read that Hitler was a jew, you have only
informations of suspicion about his mother, his jewish ministers and
generals, etc... Sometimes, the paper is smarter and tells you that he
was the creator of Israel. You can also be aware of the many
discrepancies from Hitler (Dunkirk for example). But, if you think a
little bit, you fall quickly on the following inconsistency
If
people are fleeing their nation because of chaos, crime, violence, than
it is time for a more forward leaning American presence in THOSE
NATIONS. […]
ABC
News has been telling us that the US military forces being deployed to
the border in Texas will not be doing policing activities. Why […]
It
begins with who owns them. It has always been about who owns them.
Though the electronic communications age opened the eyes of all
Americans […]
Someone
sent seven packages, each containing a pipe bomb and a white powder
resembling anthrax. The perpetrator/s obviously made a point of sending
them to […]
In
Houston, President Trump proclaimed he is a nationalist! So are many,
if not most Americans! The President knows and is directly challenging a
favorite […]
The
oncoming invasion of thousands of people from Central America, through
Mexico, is the second such phenomena in a matter of years. It mirrors
the […]
Northern Reflections
Howard Fineman has been around for a long time. He has reported and
commented on American politics for decades. He grew up in Pittsburgh, in
the very synagogue which was the site yesterday of yet another mass
shooting. He writes in today's New York Times: I was taught in Squirrel
Hill that we were in the one country that was an exception to the
history of the human race in general and the Jews in
If you thought that Donald Trump's war on the media couldn't happen
here, think again. Alex Boutilier writes in The Toronto Star :
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s office has revamped its
communications team to provide a more rapid response, war room-style
operation. And they have not been shy about calling out reporting they
don’t like. At a rally in downtown Ottawa last Sunday, Scheer said h
Doug Ford keeps repeating that phrase -- " the people for people." But
his week he again made the phrase a laughing stock. He cancelled
Kathleen Wynne's labour legislation which was " updated last year after a
two-year review with extensive public consultations." Linda McQuaig
writes : Gone is the minimum wage hike to $15 an hour. So, just like
that, faster than you can say "for the people," Ford
Yesterday, Alexander Soros, George's son, published an op-ed in the New
York Times , titled "The Hate Among Us." He wrote: My family is no
stranger to the hostilities of those who reject our philosophy, our
politics and our very identity. My father grew up in the shadow of the
Nazi regime in Hungary. My grandfather secured papers with false names
so that they could survive the onslaught against B
When Chris Hedges was 10 years old, he was sent to a private boarding
school for the uber rich. He was not of them. But he learned who they
were. He writes : It was impossible to build a friendship with most of
the sons of the uber-rich. Friendship for them was defined by “what’s in
it for me?” They were surrounded from the moment they came out of the
womb by people catering to their desires and
Last night, John Tory was elected mayor of Toronto for the second time.
His real opponent was never Jennifer Keesmaat. It was Doug Ford. Martin
Regg Cohn writes : Monday’s mayoral contest was never really between
Tory and Jennifer Keesmaat, who finished a distant second. His real
nemesis has been, and will be, Ford — that shape-shifting mirage who
long aspired to replace him as mayor, but has now
Northerntruthseeker
Well... It is indeed Sunday, and once again better late than never,
here comes my weekend rant.. I have been extremely busy and burned out
this last while... Work alone has had major changes and a lot of
pressure on myself... On top of that I have my mother that is once again
in declining health on my mind as well as trying to take care of family
needs... I have decided to delay any further renov
I
have been having a weekend from hell... I have a lot going this
weekend, and will be extremely busy tomorrow as well taking care of a
lot of personal and family necessities....... Therefore, I am giving
readers a heads up once again that I may be 'delayed' in getting
tomorrow's rant off on time... The worse case scenario is to have it
published late tomorrow or even mid day Monday... I will do m
Being
a man of science and knowing that NASA and other so called "space
agencies" have been lying their asses off for decades about our amazing
"exploits" in outer space, I am always interested when something new
comes along that defies conventional "logic" and "scientific facts" that
have been promoted for decades and fills out so called "science
books".... One is of course the incessant lies abo
I
spent yesterday doing a lot of personal business and visiting my
mother... If anyone was hoping I was going to post an article or two
yesterday at this blog, my apologies.... I will state before I get onto
this newest article that the so called 'letter bombs' that are all over
the Jew spew news these last few days are complete and utter bullshit!
The proof is right in front of everyones' faces i
I
am a truly pissed off Northerntruthseeker these days... I have just
read the local news from right here in central Canada where that
excruciatingly moronic Canadian "Prime Minister" Justin Trudeau and his
cronies in Ottawa have now decided to ram through their fraudulent
"carbon tax" scheme on Canadians by making the false claim that the
"carbon tax" will be basically "revenue neutral" and that
I
have received a lot of comments and emails about my recent article by
Jew Israel Shamir.... I again will leave that article stand for now, BUT
I will no longer promote any of his works here at this blog... One
commentator pointed out a recent article by that Jewish author where he
claimed that there was NO evidence of the massive mass murder and
genocide of Russians that occurred after the Jew B
"But let’s get one thing clear: Contrary to what those fear-filled
conservatives are saying, the immigrant caravan is not an invasion....
"Among the darkest of ironies in this nightmarish circus [however] is
the fact that while conservatives quiver and quake over the prospect
that the illegals are coming to get them, they continue to ardently
support a federal program that is a root cause of the
"The complete architect is master of the elements: earth, air, fire,
light, and water. Space, motion, and gravitation are is palette: the sun
his brush. His concern is the heart of humanity." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright,
1949 [Hat tip to and photo from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation ]
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" Religious and medical propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding, I
hold some simple truths to be self-evident. One of these truths is that
just as the dead do not rise from the grave, so drugs do not commit
crimes. The dead remain dead. Drugs are inert chemicals that have no
effect on human beings who choose not to use them. No one has to smoke
cigarettes, and no one has to shoot heroin. Peopl
"Now free trade is not a theory in any sense of the word. It is only a
mode of liberty; one form of the assault (and therefore negative) which
the expanding intelligence of the present is making on the trammels
which it has inherited from the past." ~ William Graham Sumner, from his
1885 book, Protectionism: the -ism Which Teaches that Waste Makes
Wealth . Hat tip Don Boudreaux, who adds : Sumner
"Conventional economists hold markets to far higher standards than they
hold government. Markets 'fail' unless they’re optimal . Governments
'succeed' unless they’re on fire. If this seems unfair, compare the
standard definitions of 'market failure' and 'failed state.' Market
failure exists whenever markets fall short of perfect efficiency. To be a
failed state , in contrast, requires habitual di
Vinay Kolhatkar lists 8 things that those who follow the climate creed
must defend if they are to be consistent -- "all eight, no exceptions—a
single weakness in the chain and the climate creed falls flat" -- along
with three further (bonus) observations: Why the climate change movement
is a fraud: The Church of Climate Scientology ("Climate Change") is the
creed that claims that (1) there is sig
Obsidian Wings
Joyce Fienberg, 75, of Oakland Richard Gottfried, 65, of Ross Township
Rose Mallinger, 97, of Squirrel Hill Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, of Edgewood
Cecil Rosenthal, 59, of Squirrel Hill David Rosenthal, 54, of Squirrel
Hill (Cecil and David Rosenthal are brothers) Bernice Simon, 84, of
Wilkinsburg Sylvan Simon, 87, of Wilkinsburg (Bernice and Sylvan
are husband and wife) Daniel Stein, 71, of Squ
by liberal japonicus Has it only been four days since I posted about
the ' migrant caravan '? Lot of pressure and Ugh is there with a stent
of an open thread, but here's a little more focussed post for those of
you who want to chat. This post is sort of about Megyn Kelly , formerly
of the Today show and the title comes from this unrelated Guardian
article about Rhiannon Giddens and the final para
by Ugh As the liberal illuminati outsmart themselves by sending pipe
bombs to their own leaders in a horribly failed attempt to distract from
the overwhelming menace of a caravan of more than 100,000 heavily armed
foot soldiers of Middle Eastern descent steadily marching toward the
U.S.'s naked southern border, and due to get closer than 1,000 miles any
day now, I present to you this open thread.
by liberal japonicus There's so much shit happening, it is hard to keep
track. We've not talked about it here, but the migrant caravan is a
pretty amazing example of when one thing goes wrong, everything goes
wrong. The fact that a caravan like that, timed perfectly to encourage
the Republican/Clickbait base when the elections take place, seems like
the dictionary definition of dirty tricks had m
by Ugh There is too much sh1t goin' on. Can we go back to the good old
days of no drama? Pls thx bai? Whatever. Go Sox, tho' I wouldn't mind a
Brewers World Series victory (wait, did I just talk about baseball?
Don't tell the Count). If Dems take the House you will see a lame duck
session the likes of which even god has never seen . Deliberation over
judicial nominations? we don't need no stinkin
by liberal japonicus There was a bit of a back and forth in the
comments that started out with musings about changing citizenship and
moved into the idea of this post, which, by a bit of synchronicity, goes
out shortly after National Coming Out Day (11 Oct), though nothing in
the post is specifically about that. I don't
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